Includes articles: Another Problem for Us To Solve (on repairing S.S. America and motorships Titania and Tiradentes); A Rational Method of Comparing Motorship and Steamship Costs; Smoke: It's Real Relation to Efficient Combustion; A Morse Sky...

Synthetic textile fibers are a major field of current interest in DuPont research. Process engineer pictured here is checking photographs of magnified fiber cross-sections, comparing an experimental fiber, center, with give commercial fibers made...

The above photographs are fiber diagrams comparing the fiber distribution and length of fibers in Two Top produced by Pacific Mills Worsted Division with other types of top. No. 1 represents a conventional pick carded and combed rayon top. The...

Handwritten on back: "2. Changing position of the saw. Tree just to right of fallen sequoia is an abraged sized white fir tree which offers means of comparing other trees of forest with the Big Trees."

More than a quarter mile of eight inch nylon hawser, the first to be put into commercial use, was delivered to ocean going tug Margot Moran, a 1,200 horse-power unit of Moran Towing and Transportation Company fleet. The hawser is the largest ever...

More than a quarter mile of eight inch nylon hawser, the first to be put into commercial use, was delivered to ocean going tug Margot Moran, a 1,200 horse-power unit of Moran Towing and Transportation Company fleet. The hawser is the largest ever...

More than a quarter mile of eight inch nylon hawser, the first to be put into commercial use, was delivered to ocean going tug Margot Moran, a 1,200 horse-power unit of Moran Towing and Transportation Company fleet. The hawser is the largest ever...

More than a quarter mile of eight inch nylon hawser, the first to be put into commercial use, was delivered to ocean going tug Margot Moran, a 1,200 horse-power unit of Moran Towing and Transportation Company fleet. The hawser is the largest ever...

Nylon's pliability and ease of handling are demonstrated in this picture of more than a quarter mile of eight inch nylon hawser, the first to be put into commercial use, was delivered to ocean going tug Margot Moran, a 1,200 horse-power unit of...

More than a quarter mile of eight inch nylon hawser, the first to be put into commercial use, was delivered to ocean going tug Margot Moran, a 1,200 horse-power unit of Moran Towing and Transportation Company fleet. The hawser is the largest ever...